Apparent no "diversity" (besides some Turks or Arabs being blasted away by the God of War in Egypt) means it can't win Oscars and other such stupid awards like BATFA, but who really cares about these anymore, or even watches their ceremonies. "Academy Award winner" in this trailer is so ironic in that context.
I also wonder how much of these are real sets (and real actors), I remember (I'm old) how Gangs of New York was said to be the last historical epic without CGI sets before the new era. I'm so completely sick of anything blatantly CGI in movies (think all the dumb Marvel garbage that used to so excite people), and I'm actually really impressed by the otherwise crazy cultist Tom Cruise insisting on everything being real in the Mission Impossible movies and also on him making all his stunts (because he's insane). Also he never really ages what the fuck (Keanu Reeves too).
If they were using real sets it would have 100x the budget and you would have literally heard about 10,000 actors marching around the fields of France.
I think it looks good (and frankly large scenes of armies is a topic CGI has gotten a lot better at).
The problem that I see, which is a problem with all Revolutionary French films, is that they are going to go out of their way to ignore the fact that Napoleon was a raging Leftist. He wasn't a rightst, and he wasn't just opportunistic. He seized power both for himself, and because he believed that only he could bring the revolution to it's height. That mob he fired on was a royalist mob trying to end the revolution. He did not end the revolution, he expanded it. No one in France thought the Revolution had ended. None of the opponents of the revolution outside of France thought it had ended. The only people who thought the French revolution ended with Napoleon were other Leftists who thought that you couldn't have an authoritarian Leftist.
A movie about a great European historical figure that isn't somehow tied to world war 2? Color me intrigued. I thought the film industry was incapable of still producing such a thing.
From the trailer the only things that worry me are the weird 20th century pixie haircut on the love interest at the party and perpetuating the myth that Napoleon just started blasting historic monuments in Egypt, but otherwise looks great. This might be the first film in a while I actually pay money to see.
I thought the same thing, although I don't know anything about hairstyles so I looked up pictures of old French styles. The closest I found was this website, and I wouldn't be surprised if whoever did the designs for the movie googled old haircuts and saw that. Another short article on "The Titus Cut" shows a portrait that's somewhat like the dame in the movie, Madame Arnault de Gorse.
No I'm not arguing that it's period accurate or anything, just something interesting. In fact most of the pictures you find of "The Titus Cut" still portray the women with curly hair.
It's been a long time since I've researched the French Revolution, but I recall the Titus Cut being a very short fad and not styled the same way, and usually with the hair worn "up" to make it look shorter than it actually was. Thanks for bringing that up though I had forgotten about it.
It's gotta be Josephine, but the problem is that that's historically accurate too. He's a bit of a cuck when it comes to her. That is how she kinda kept one of the most ambitious men in human history in line. I don't doubt she probably told him something like that to his face. If she didn't, he certainly believed it.
And she has a point. He had no capacity to navigate through the French aristocracy or upper class. He wasn't even French to a lot of them. He did absolutely need her social graces at a political level.
Apparent no "diversity" (besides some Turks or Arabs being blasted away by the God of War in Egypt) means it can't win Oscars and other such stupid awards like BATFA, but who really cares about these anymore, or even watches their ceremonies. "Academy Award winner" in this trailer is so ironic in that context.
I also wonder how much of these are real sets (and real actors), I remember (I'm old) how Gangs of New York was said to be the last historical epic without CGI sets before the new era. I'm so completely sick of anything blatantly CGI in movies (think all the dumb Marvel garbage that used to so excite people), and I'm actually really impressed by the otherwise crazy cultist Tom Cruise insisting on everything being real in the Mission Impossible movies and also on him making all his stunts (because he's insane). Also he never really ages what the fuck (Keanu Reeves too).
If they were using real sets it would have 100x the budget and you would have literally heard about 10,000 actors marching around the fields of France.
I think it looks good (and frankly large scenes of armies is a topic CGI has gotten a lot better at).
The problem that I see, which is a problem with all Revolutionary French films, is that they are going to go out of their way to ignore the fact that Napoleon was a raging Leftist. He wasn't a rightst, and he wasn't just opportunistic. He seized power both for himself, and because he believed that only he could bring the revolution to it's height. That mob he fired on was a royalist mob trying to end the revolution. He did not end the revolution, he expanded it. No one in France thought the Revolution had ended. None of the opponents of the revolution outside of France thought it had ended. The only people who thought the French revolution ended with Napoleon were other Leftists who thought that you couldn't have an authoritarian Leftist.
A movie about a great European historical figure that isn't somehow tied to world war 2? Color me intrigued. I thought the film industry was incapable of still producing such a thing.
From the trailer the only things that worry me are the weird 20th century pixie haircut on the love interest at the party and perpetuating the myth that Napoleon just started blasting historic monuments in Egypt, but otherwise looks great. This might be the first film in a while I actually pay money to see.
My grandma said to not listen to what school was teaching me, Josephine was black.
I thought the same thing, although I don't know anything about hairstyles so I looked up pictures of old French styles. The closest I found was this website, and I wouldn't be surprised if whoever did the designs for the movie googled old haircuts and saw that. Another short article on "The Titus Cut" shows a portrait that's somewhat like the dame in the movie, Madame Arnault de Gorse.
No I'm not arguing that it's period accurate or anything, just something interesting. In fact most of the pictures you find of "The Titus Cut" still portray the women with curly hair.
It's been a long time since I've researched the French Revolution, but I recall the Titus Cut being a very short fad and not styled the same way, and usually with the hair worn "up" to make it look shorter than it actually was. Thanks for bringing that up though I had forgotten about it.
It's gotta be Josephine, but the problem is that that's historically accurate too. He's a bit of a cuck when it comes to her. That is how she kinda kept one of the most ambitious men in human history in line. I don't doubt she probably told him something like that to his face. If she didn't, he certainly believed it.
And she has a point. He had no capacity to navigate through the French aristocracy or upper class. He wasn't even French to a lot of them. He did absolutely need her social graces at a political level.
"La France, l'armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine."
This one... This one I'll happily go see in a theater. IMAX if available.
Possibly Ridley Scott redemption arc?
Interesting that they dropped a trailer for one of the most iconic symbols of French nationalism just after having massive race riots in France.
Trying to time a movie about a famous French guy for a period without riots in France is a coin flip at best.
You used grapeshot!
It was very effective!
I read about this being in production a couple of years ago, and forgot about it.
I had no idea it was coming out this year. Indeed a pleasant surprise.
I wonder what old Bony Parts would think of today's France.
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